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Uncategorized April 7, 2016

Freestyle cephalopod: felt tip pen, gel pen: 7″x5″ Making the most of my time as I pump! Love how this sketch came out. I think I might be ready to bring back An Octopus a Day…

Uncategorized June 23, 2015

coquettetopus : felt tip pen & gel pen: 7″ x 5″ Available as both a print and original art on Etsy!

Uncategorized March 12, 2015

deepling octopus : gel pen & felt tip pen: 6″x4″ Really happy with how this one came out. Despite the level of abstraction I think the movement all the lines suggests makes it quite unmistakably an octopus.

Uncategorized March 12, 2015

bathyscaphtopus: gel pen & felt tip pen: 6″x4″ Oh what a difference a few thicker lines makes! I was super inspired by all the maddeningly intricate artwork featured by Nicholas Di Genova in the latest issue of the Salt Hill Journal (which my husband Michael Paul Thomas founded back at Syracuse University in the day). You …

Uncategorized January 2, 2015

Happy new year everyone! Here’s a happy little blob of an octopus. Been playing with the idea of doing blind contour drawings to kickstart the octopus creation process – I’m finding that the curves I draw when I’m not looking at the page are often more fluid and lovely than the ones I draw normally. …

Uncategorized September 29, 2013

cephalopods and script. (for @mariadahvana) : pilot custom 743 + j. herbin rouge hematite ink on ogami paper

Uncategorized September 25, 2013

vagabond vulgaris : diamine oxblood ink on ogami paper

Uncategorized August 19, 2013

heavy handed octopus (that purple colored pencil is horrendously not-subtle) : watercolors, gouache, colored pencil: 4" x 6" 

Uncategorized August 15, 2013

cephalopods and daggers (my Pecan ink from Papier Plume isn’t the best for writing or drawing, but it does lovely and unexpected things when used as a wash) : ink, gel pen

Uncategorized August 11, 2013

inoculated octopus : watercolors, gel pen, copic pen: 6" x 4"

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